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Linus Torvalds on how and when to maintain a clean git history (2009) (www.mail-archive.com)
submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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I want clean history, but that really means (a) clean and (b) history.

People can (and probably should) rebase their private trees (their own work). That's a cleanup. But never other peoples code. That's a "destroy history"

So the history part is fairly easy. There's only one major rule, and one minor clarification:

  • You must never EVER destroy other peoples history. You must not rebase commits other people did.

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If you are working with git together with other people, it's worth a read.

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[โ€“] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Have you ever seen or created something like this?

This might explain why it might be useful to re-write history at all, and why tools like jujutsu or gerrit are interesting, in specific contexts.

[โ€“] Flipper@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

In a project I'm in there are 20 commits just labeled .. The only reason I haven't slapped them silly is they left before I started.

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